Invision Community 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

It's a fantastic list of products and has been great for our intranet. Homepage, forums, blogs, gallery have been super.eCommerce store hasn't been used but I have used it in the past for other roles, it's a superb product with alot of customisation.

Our overall experience is very good. Our developers team taking a advantage by creation various FAQ pages, websites. It is helping our business a lot. simply GO for it.

Honestly, fewer and fewer. The platform used to empower community-building and customization, but lately, it feels more restrictive. At this point, platforms like WordPress, XenForo, MyBB, PHPBB, and even Discord offer more flexibility and benefits — often at a lower cost or even free.

My experience with Invision Community goes way back to circa 2004-2005 (I was still in high school) where I first dug my hands into forums and forum software in the good old Invisionfree days. Through the years I have created many communities, some successful and many others were anything but. Little did I know these experiences would only get me more and more hooked into this virtual world! Forums are communities of like-minded people sharing their knowledge, experiences, hobbies and most of all, coming together in a common place to just be themselves. I have experienced nearly every forum software out there, though I always made my way back to the Invision Community suite of products as I not only found it to be a very powerful and dynamic bit of kit, but it always provided the solutions I wanted and needed for my communities. If you have read some of the negative reviews regarding the team, take it with a grain of salt (I sure do!). The team strive for perfection and are not only extremely knowledgeable, but the way they connect and communicate with their community and clients are second to none. Every word of feedback and suggestions are read and taken seriously, they don't belittle anyone including those with negative approaches and you can read for yourself how they communicate with existing clients versus new members. They are respectful and know how to work together to produce something that is simply leading the market and this industry. Thank you, Invision Community. Not only for having the best community software, but for giving your clients and potential clients the very best in customer service. Each of you (and I really mean it) make up a great team and deserve all the praise. Forums, forum software, communities, however you word it, just wouldn't be the way they are without you.

After having used vBulletin and Vanilla (free edition) for many years, it was a real joy to make the switch to IPS. Even migrating from Vanilla was easy. Robust software and helpful and professional support.

A few IPB issue samples:Autumn 2021IPS support suddenly communicates that we had changed the program code, effectively leaving us without support – if we did not reverse the change. The Support was, as always, very confident and not open to arguments. “Our flag shows that you have changed the code.” End of discussion. Since we had not changed any program code there was nothing to reverse. We then communicated that we had decided to leave IPS. A Support staff then, but not until then, manually checked the code and concluded that we had not changed a single letter. Another one of these bugs. No excuse was given, but we decided to return to IPS due to all the hours invested. A critical mistake by us when viewed in the mirror. Autumn 2021During our tests a large portion of new members’ registrations stalls. According to IPS Support everything points towards that our environment is to blame. Quite the contrary, during three frustrating months we did hundreds of user registration tests on all kinds of hardware, three different browsers, and two separate networks. With the same result. But not until a senior IPS developer was engaged the IPS Support blame game stopped. Within two weeks of testing and analysis, the error was found - in the IPS environment (the service worker)...

I've been a longtime Invision subscriber, both the software and their cloud hosting. Their off the shelf product remains best in class, but man am I disappointed with their cloud hosting. They're expensive, bureaucratic at every step, they don't provide ftp access, you have to go through them to perform backups and restores, they treat their customers like we're idiots and nickel and dime you every step of the way. The final insult happened today, when I'd finally had enough and decided to self host. They told me I'd have to pay $500 to change my plan (plus an additional $200/year for the service itself). I agreed (what choice do I have), only to get an error when I tried to download the software. So what do they say when this happens, after I've spent $500 for the privilege of switching plans? No apology, no circumventing the system to just get me the software I just paid for. Instead, I receive this note: "After reviewing your request, we have determined that it is going to require further investigation by our advanced support/development team. I have escalated your request to that department and they will provide further assistance as quickly as possible. Due to the advanced nature of your request, please note that it may take longer than usual to fully address your concern. Please also note that advanced support is only available Monday through Friday. I apologize in advance for this delay." They sent this on a Thursday afternoon, btw. I am so angry.

It has been awesome experience using Invision Community so far.